I'm boycotting, Lebron or no Lebron

After the NBA ruined the playoffs by suspending two Phoenix players and undoing the Suns, I wrote that I would boycott the playoffs.

I have not watched a minute of a game since. If I'm in a bar and a game is on, I look at the TV that's showing baseball or baseball highlights, poker or tennis.

I wish I could have watched LeBron's viruoso performance against Detroit Thursday night. Friends that know I love the game but committed to the boycott will email and call to tell me how good the game was and promise the next game will be even more entertaining.

My friends are like that.

But you know how it is. If you commit to a boycott you can't let it go. There's a popular restaurant near SouthPark that I boycott because our first time there a big deal wine guy was at the next table.

Management and staff hovered around him but served us fast-food style. This is an expensive place, and they all but kicked us out after 45 minutes. Their attitude was, are you still here?

I won't go back. I boycott other restaurants, bars, people, products, streets, dogfighting and dogfighting proponents. Despite LeBron, I will stay strong and continue to boycott the playoffs.

I hope the rest of you enjoy them, however. I also hope the winning margin the rest of the way is 15 points a game.

Have something you boycott? Tell me what and why in the comments section.

The NBA did the right thing in the Spurs/Suns series. If they don't suspend those players it would have been hell trying to explain why they didn't. Let's say in the Pistons/Cavs series a little scuffle breaks out and Mr. Mean (Rasheed Wallace) momentarily leaves the Pistons bench and returns to the proper area. If the NBA suspends him he would go nuts and rightfully so. How do you stop that scenario? IF YOU LEAVE THE BENCH AREA YOU WILL BE SUSPENDED...GOOD GUY...BAD GUY...ALL-STAR...SCRUB. Follow the rules, that's life. Enjoy your boycott.

I greatly admire you for sticking to your guns, but your missing some good playoff action.

I hope they review the rule that got Stoudemire and Diaw suspended (although it does appear as though Stoudemire was trying to jump in the fray - IMO), because it did have such a major effect on the outcome. But that's life and as long as humans are involved - there's always going to be that potential for a blunder and that's just the way it is...

I also boycott Burger King because of their crappy onion rings, and I boycott against Crystal Burger because my Lord, those aren't burgers, they're....something, but not burgers.

I used to boycott Stuckey's because all they ever sold were pecan logs and flat fountain drinks. And the bathrooms were awful. A one-man boycott may seem trivial, but hey, when was the last time you saw a Stuckey's that is still open for business? Okay then.

Speaking of the bench areal rule review, it already was, and the owners and competition committee ruled in nearly unanimous fashion that it would not change. The rule is simple, easily understandable, and easy to follow. If it wasn't, then how did 8 other Phoenix players and 10 San Antonio players manage not to screw it up. The only people to blame here are Amare Stoudemire (who has never had an excess of intelligence anyway) and Boris Diaw. Well, them and the 42 assistant coaches, most of whom have no bigger job than TO hold players back in situations like these.